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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others. -- Edward Irving
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. -- Giorgos Seferis
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. -- Pope Paul VI
Hardness shatters; strength endures. -- Robert Jordan
Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity. -- Clark Coolidge
Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness. -- Jim Elliot
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness. -- Mother Teresa
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation. -- C. S. Lewis
When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness. -- Madame de Stael
Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin. -- C. J. Mahaney
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness. -- Laozi
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity. -- Matthew Arnold
Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook -- B. C. Forbes
A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. -- Mark Twain
I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness. -- C. J. Mahaney
Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin. -- Archibald Alexander
Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again! -- Virginia Woolf
Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I like they way Asians project their feelings. There's a hardness to the culture, but at the same time there's a delicateness. -- Paz Vega
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising. -- Barbara Januszkiewicz
In the face of so many wounds that hurt us and could lead to a hardness of heart, we are called to dive into the sea of prayer, which is the sea of the boundless love of God, in order to experience his tenderness -- Pope Francis
I don't think of myself as a hard man, but other people may think otherwise. You know you have obligations to do the best you can for people, for your job, for your shareholders... it all has to be balanced between the hardness and the softness. -- Frank Lowy
Christ's voice sounds now for each of us in loving invitation; and dead in sin and hardness of heart though we be, we can listen and live. Christ Himself, my brother, sows the seed now. Do you take care that it falls not on, but in, your souls. -- Alexander MacLaren
During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set by their structure, on scales far smaller even than a microscope can see. Everything on Earth is made of atoms, which are, especially in living things, combined together in intricate molecular assemblages. -- Martin Rees
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repen t and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference, our hardness of heart. What are we to believe? Jesus thirsts even now, in your heart and in the poor -- He knows your weakness. He wants only your love, wants only the chance to love you. -- Mother Teresa
The hardness of the human heart makes no sense. -- Rob Bell
A hardness to change reveals a hardness of heart. -- Gary Rohrmayer
Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother. -- William Shakespeare
The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread. -- Steven Wright
The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current... -- Henry Giroux
Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
All the sands of the world even when they unite together cannot create the hardness of a single rock! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone. -- Yehuda Amichai
Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond. -- Patanjali
Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness. -- Laozi
Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace. -- Saint Basil
And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists. -- Moby
Tears only dry up as a result of hardness of the heart, and the hearts only harden as a result of frequent sinning. -- Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face. -- William Wordsworth
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. -- Charles de Gaulle
We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we wait to pounce... -- George Lincoln Rockwell
When you see a woman wearing McQueen, thereâ??s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off. -- Alexander McQueen
Allow the hammer of pain to split open the stone armor of your hardness; exposing the tenderness and beauty of your sweet spirit and sacred heart. -- Bryant McGill
Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people. -- Jane Addams
In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness. -- Francis Schaeffer
Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death. -- Laozi
The most striking features of the correctly bred German Shepherds are firmness of nerves, attentiveness, unshockability, tractability, watchfulness, reliability and incorruptibility together with courage, fighting tenacity and hardness. -- Max von Stephanitz
In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness. -- Tennessee Williams
I place my trust in You, O adorable Blood, our Redemption, our regeneration. Fall, drop by drop, into the hearts that have wandered from You and soften their hardness. -- Agnes of Rome
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment. -- John Dryden
She touched him everywhere she could reach. The rounded hardness of his biceps and chest, the ripped contours of his back, his thick, damp hair, until touching with his hands wasn't enough. -- Melissa Cutler
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation. -- Laozi

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